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Softonic Rating:
Excellent910
License:
Free to try
Added:
March 22, 2007
Updated:
July 4, 2008
Publisher:
Website
File size:
10.7 MB
Downloads:
1,030
Cyril Roger

“The social browser for blog addicts”

by Cyril Roger

Flock is a browser for blogging and social network addicts. Based on the Mozilla infrastructure, it offers many features found in Firefox like tabbed browsing, quick RSS feed aggregation and customizable toolbars. Thanks to the web clipboard, you can copy any image or text you find on the net. Favorite links can be saved with tags and you can customize your own world, where you showcase your favorite sites, feeds and media. This brings us to one of the main features of Flock, the media bar, placed at the top of the browser. This tool lets you search and view any sort of media from sites like YouTube, Facebook or Flickr.

However the real strength of Flock comes in its social networking integration. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Xanga, Magnolia and more can be opened up from the "accounts and services" sidebar. Thanks to the people sidebar, you'll be able to quickly see all your friends from your different networks. Flock also offers up a blog editor, from which you can write up all your posts. News junkies will also like the RSS reader, also accessible from the sidebar.

While we were impressed with all the major improvements found in this new release of Flock, we felt that the sidebar was probably a bit overused. RSS feeds, social networks, favorites, and the web clipboard all open up in the sidebar, meaning you can't have them on all at once. The blog editor is a nice touch, but it's a shame that it doesn't allow you to upload images to your blog.

If your high on social networks, Flock is definitely the browser for you.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in Flock:

  • Flock 1.1 has integrated popular webmail services Yahoo! Mail and Gmail.
  • The Picasa photo service has been added.
  • In addition to more flexibility, MyWorld has been enhanced with new Friend Activity feature for a centralized place to stay in touch with all your friends activities.
  • Several performance and stability enhancements have been implemented and several memory leaks have been fixed.

OS requirements for Flock:

  • OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista
Pros
  • Quickly post photo on Flickr
  • Drag and drop anything to clipboard
  • Integrates Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other social networks
  • People sidebar loads all your friends
Cons
  • Doesn't upload images to blog
  • Fits too many features in the sidebar
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From the publisher of Flock

Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base. It is a free, open source web browser. The main features of Flock are:

Favorites & history search

  • Simply click the Star in the URL bar and you've flagged a page
  • Add tags to Favorites by simply clicking the little arrow next to the Star icon
  • Pages you've starred as Favorites float to the top when you do a History Search
  • History Search is stored locally for privacy
  • Most Frequently Visited / Most Recently Added
  • Have multiple Favorites toolbars and switch back and forth between them

Feeds

  • Flock puts an icon in the URL bar when a site has one or more feeds
  • When you star a web page that has a feed, the feed is cached and updated every hour
  • Flock automatically creates an aggregated view for all of your collections

Blogging

  • Blog editor that works with WordPress, Movable Type and Typepad and Blogger
  • You can easily blog interesting web content with Flock, in just a few clicks
  • You can drag and drop pictures from our integrated Flickr topbar right into your blog post
  • The Shelf is a scrapbook for interesting web content that you want to blog about later

Posts about Flock in our blog

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Reviews for Flock in other languages

  • Flock (Testbericht auf Deutsch)
  • Flock (Le test en français)

Flock in other platforms

Softonic Rating:Excellent
9/10

User Rating

14 ratings
Usability
  • Currently 9/10.
Stability
  • Currently 9/10.
Installation
  • Currently 9/10.
Functionality
  • Currently 9/10.
Appearance
  • Currently 9/10.

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